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Cultural diffusion

In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, art, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another. The concept was introduced by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis. It…

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Cultural diffusion

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related to Contributors · 12
Cultural diffusion → Burnett, Franz BoasAnne Walbank BucklandJames, GordonFritz GraebnerA, HaddonAlice Beck KehoeDavid, KelleyA, KroeberW, Lord MonboddoLeo FrobeniusCyrus, Major, PerryFriedrich RatzelW, RiversEverett RogersWilhelm SchmidtGrafton Elliot, SmithE, TylorClark WisslerThomas Friedman
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Cultural diffusion → Contagious, Early Siberian, Expansion, Five, Hierarchical, HIV/AIDS, Occurs, Relocation, Stimulus, They, This
related to Theories · 8
Cultural diffusion → According, German, Hyperdiffusionism, Kulturkreise, Kulturkugel, Mallory, Migrationism, The
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Cultural diffusion → Among, Ideas, Inter-cultural, Migrating, Technology, There, Trans-cultural
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Cultural diffusion → spread of cultural items

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Cultural diffusionis aspread of cultural items0.90text
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsMajor0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsFranz BoasAnne Walbank BucklandJames0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsBurnett0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsLord MonboddoLeo FrobeniusCyrus0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsGordonFritz GraebnerA0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsHaddonAlice Beck KehoeDavid0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsKelleyA0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsKroeberW0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsPerryFriedrich RatzelW0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsRiversEverett RogersWilhelm SchmidtGrafton Elliot0.60section
Cultural diffusionrelated to ContributorsSmithE0.60section

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